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"Europe's Next War Could Start in the Balkans" that statement has been correct for like a past 600 years

As a Bosnian Serb all I want to say is, that I don't want war nor succession, I just want peace and the economy to rise.

If you have ever been in the Balkans and especially in Bosnia, you know that the people don't want war and only few actually support separatist movements. Actually, many people even wish Yugoslavia back because back then they were all neighbors in the same country and all lived in a big, powerful and economically strong country instead of all the small and poor ones today.

Challenge: count how much times independence was said in this video

As someone from Serbia I can tell you that the chances of war are almost non existent. These kinds of videos are fun, but not likely to happen. The posturing is used only for internal political reasons on all sides. There are 3 main reasons: 1. Even if Serbia wanted a war hypothetically (which we don't), we are surrounded by either NATO countries or NATO protectorates (like Bosnia and Kosovo). There is no way that anyone would decide to go to war with 30+ countries just to get destroyed by NATO. Plus, all Ex Yugoslav armies are a joke compared to former self. 2. There is nothing to go to war for and very few that would be willing to fight. The war here is kinda seen as a thing of the past. We have lived through the consequences of the past war, and nobody would want to bring that back, neither the old generations that have been through it themselves, neither the new generations that have grown up in the aftermath. All countries in the region want to join the EU, develop our economies and gain further stability. We have some issues that need to be solved still (like Kosovo), and some things we don't agree on, but generally we are on the same path, just not with the same pace. 3. Neither the politicians nor the people want war. It would totally destroy any economic and social progress made in the past decades. The demographics are terrible, we have many more important problems to solve and a war would be suicidal. So yeah... not happening. The people know it, the politicans know it, the international community knows it. It's all just posturing. The remaining issues will be solved by diplomatic agreements. It just takes time.

I live in this region, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. There is nobody that could go to war. Most of our young people went to work in Europe, there is no weapons, and most of the population don't know how to use weapons because there is no obligatory service in the army like it was before.

16:43 The ONLY loss of a stealth aircraft due to combat in the history of warfare

i am an albanian from Kosova & no one in their right mind would want a war, not a single civilian but the civilians are never asked. We did not want a war back in the 90s but no one asked, not a single civilian wanted a war but no one asked them. So even now when we want peace & stability they do not ask because the people on top decide for us, so do not rule out the option of another war happening in the balkans. Not a single human on this earth wants war & have them n their loved ones killed, but at the end of the day the ones who are running the country decide what will happen.

As a Bosnian this is all highly unlikely. Bosnians are still traumatiesed from the 90s and don t want another war. Majority of Serbs also have absoloutly no wish to start a war since they remeber what happened the last time they did and have basicly the same culture as Bosnians.

People from these areas are tired of war. As a Croat I can only send lots of love and respect to my Serbian and Bosnian brothers and sisters. It is our politics and sadly lack of education and common sense amongst masses of our people that add flame to hate and sepparation due to different religions and tradition that define all of our nations. I've visited almost all Balkan countries and wherever I went and said I was from Croatia I was always welcomed. Politics are constantly ruining Balkan nations because of their own interests. Politicans gain loads of money, but not even one single member of their families would ever be sent to war while they would send thousands to their deaths without even thinking about it because they know it would make them rich.

I can kind of see Serbia's frustration tbh, like imagine if Cornwall just declared independence form the UK, the rest of the world automatically recognized their independence and NATO stationed hundreds of troops in the country so there was nothing the UK government could do about it and then they told them to just get over it

basically america and nato opened Pandoras box

This applies to any decade, at any time, on any day.

“Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?”

You have so many videos ‘Wars Could Break Out’ I’d like to see one a ‘Next Threat of Romance to be Unleashed’

As an Albanian (Kosovar) I would say that a war is highly unlikely. There is of course friction but a war in Kosova and Bosnia, it’s taking it a bit too far.

I appreciate the first minute or so showing the hypocrisy of the big powers ignoring the Armenian situation

dont wanna nitpick, but: the brcko district is not a "jointly-shared" district, but rather a self-governing administrative unit.

Man, anglos really act like they're the good guys

bosnian here i just can confirm what a bosnian serb and a croat here said already we fought our wars we got all bloody noses now we just want peace stability and prosperity who ever wants to go into wars u may do so but do it outside of the balkans and may it also be in your house keep us out we fought too many wars in the balkans also a lot of superpowers fought their wars on our back...selam / peace

The larger problem in Bosnia is that all the young people are leaving to go work in Germany and Austria. You can barely find a decent young tradie in the entire country.

I was able to visit some parts of the balkans and they are breathtaking and have such kind people!

Dude I had respect for your videos up until now.

Agreed with my ex-yu mates, it's an entertaining vid and a decent high-level overview, but things are muuuch more complicated than that, and this scenario although certainly possible is highly unlikely. If war actually started happening, I do believe we would all just topple our governments pretty quickly in the biggest protests we ever saw, and we saw some very big protests in recent history.

As a Dayton resident, I love seeing talk about our rust belt and industrially abandoned city. It feels like we've been forgotten

It is so shocking, I was born in germany, shortly after these wars and never heard of them in school. I learned the Names of the countries and had to memorize there Capitols, but never was the subjects of these wars even touched in class. It is one of the most important events in the European History.

Hello my friend I have noticed that your microphone is not what it used to be if you could look into it that would be appreciated, it's very harsh.

Ok, here is message from Croat who fought in the last war: the situation here on Balkans is far less dramatic than depicted in this video. No new war will happen any time soon, maybe some minor clashes on Kosovo. Republika Serbska WON'T join Serbia as long as NATO exists. And btw, we Croats (vast majority) DON'T want that part of Herzegovina to join Croatia.

Ex-Yugoslavian countries are still pretty close and work together maybe less than they should however I don’t think that the people of either nations want or have the nerve to attack each other. Not to mention that younger generations love each other more than they hate each other!

Croatias population 2024 is 3.986million not 3.5million.

'Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.' -Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you only read headlines, and dont know situation on the ground but still decide to make a video about it

Brother, please make a video on both the Congo wars on your modern conflict series, it has taken lives of 6 million innocent people, therefore should be known and acknowledged.

After 30 minutes my mind blew up...

14:21 how that short dude got the gig in the army is beyond me

This just demonstrates that war does not truly resolve issues, it just kicks it down the road.

We Balkans always say: "When you get up, first look to your neighbours house, then to the Sun! We have so much more to offer to each other then war !

Please, please, oh for the sake of clarity, and my poor old waning eye sight, make your text font size slightly larger. I so love your programs, but become thoroughly frustrated by not being able to read your small charts which so distracts from both the engagement and the learning. I so want to get the full benefit from the effort you put into these vids, but in the instance of some texts sizes, it becomes completely fruitless and often times even sadly aggravating (especially when a charts you did will help really clarify the issue and I am just bleeding out the sides of my eyeballs squinting so hard to try to read the text...which I just cant seem to do...and then I'm pissed and covered in eye blood ;-) Remember, many of us are on phones and thus can't see the very small text. However, nearly every time, on all your vids, you have enough space to make the font sizes slightly larger without blocking the rest of the primary focus of the picture being displayed. So, please, please, I keep, and will continue to keep asking you to please, for the sake of all that is decent and good in humanity, please increase your font size.

As the coutures of Africa can tell you, sometimes it’s better to just accept the borders you were subjected to rather than fight endless bloody wars

I saw the title and my first response was "Again?"

9:59 armoured personnel carrier with "MANCHESTER UNITED" written at the front. LOL

At 16:58 there is a footage of a row of refugees followed by tanks. That has nothing to do with NATO attack on Serbia in 1999. It was filmed in Croatian city of Vukovar, after its fall to Yugoslav troops in 1991, when its majority Croatian population was expelled from the city by the Serbs. So it shows Croatian civilians kicked out by nominally Yugoslav and really Serb troops.

You failed to mention how hypocritical NATO is

90% of the time I think you're pretty spot on and objective and take time to state each side, their motivations, goals, how we got there, and how the consequences play out. This one comes off as NATO pr, and I say that as a republican hick in utah. This happens to be one of the geopolitical situations that I've been very interested in and have studied for quite some time, and you've missed the mark on my perspective. You're not making any particular false claims, but you're only stating things from a single perspective much of the time (Croats were ethnically cleansed but Serbs were "forcefully expelled"). You also seem very out of touch regarding the actual public opinion and even the available bodies for any sort of conflict. There's absolutely posturing going on by the government, but the current situation is no where near as dramatic as you're painting here. Frankly, I think this video borderlines on irresponsible, but is certainly out of touch.

Here's the thing, man. I'm from Bulgaria (Central/East Balkans), but I have Macedonian, Serbian and Bosnian friends (with whom we speak in English lol). No fucking war is gonna errupt here, ok? We were always like this. We flap our gums at each other, both people and politicians talk about how much other nations suck and what we would do to them, we get on each other's nerves and strain our relationships from time to time, but nobody actually wants war and nobody's gonna start a war. At the very least cause all our economies absolutely suck and we don't wanna ruin them further by dragging our countries into war. Russia and Azarbeijan have a large territory and natural resources to fal back on. All we have to fall back on around here is, ironically, each other - the neighboring nations. So no wars here. Sorry.

The poor people of the Balkans Have to suffer… just move on, No more war and start building the countries up, the economy, the povertry, the unemployment rates… So Much potential going to waste because of these conflicts…

Bro was right here we are allmost war every city has military checkpoints

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Just looking at the title of this vid I wasn’t sure if I was somehow watching a preview of a video from 1904 instead of 2024….

Is it me or are these geopolicical videos getting faster?

So what you're saying is that no outside force should have ever been involved in this conflict until a decisive winner emerged. Or the conflict will never end.

As one man said, “War will start because of some foolish thing in the Balkans.”

I’m a big fan of your work and deeply appreciate the way you illuminate complex historical and modern conflicts with great care and insight. I’m writing to request a video on a subject close to my heart: the 1971 Genocide in Bangladesh. This event, pivotal for Bangladesh’s independence, led to immense loss and suffering, (3M k!ll3d and 300k R word) yet remains underrepresented in global consciousness. Your ability to present such topics with respect and depth could significantly honor the memory of the victims and educate a wide audience about its significance. A video from you on this topic would not only shed light on a crucial piece of history but also serve as a poignant reminder of the importance of remembrance and understanding. Your work makes a difference, and I believe this topic could greatly benefit from your thoughtful approach.

This video is SO sensational. Did you conduct a mass survey or ask the people in the balkans if they are willing to go to war against their slavic cousins?

Excellent

Did I just see 10mins content in 5 times loop?

On the other hand, you could argue that the lack of openness or willingness to allow areas to change status based on their wishes or ethnic make-up is what led to the Bosnian-Croat-Serbian war. The obsession with keeping it all in place just because someone, somewhere, at some point drew a line on a map, regardless of the wishes of the people in an area, can only lead to more conflict in the long run. Do the trade, make people happy.

As a Slovenian it is sad to see a video with a view just from "our" side... We had too much war in the past because of outside influence and just maybe for once, they would leave us alone. Nobody wants war here and we would solve our problems If we would not have always somebody from outside that has an interest to fuck with us.

Create conflict and maintain the conflict. Who benefits from this situation the most? Think about it.

There was really big war in Mudja's custom pubg server already here in balkans thankfully everyone is alright

Fueling the war rhetoric is part of causing a war, especially when you have an influential yt channel

Man I really like your interesting content, but can you please get a new mic? The quality of the sound is bad and it is sadly not my earbuds.

ok so now I know what the next big event will be

As a Serb, war can go fuck itself. We just want peace and economic prosperity. Can we not do this again? It's too soon. Europe, find another scapegoat this time - leave the Balkans alone

As a person, that lives in a neighbouring country, I thought it impossible that the Serbs would attempt anything like that (considering the aftermath of the war with the US), but now I am not so sure. You said that the Balkans have been chaotic and unstable for centuries... well that is thanks to the western powers, that sought to create an unstable region on purpose after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

The fact its 2024, yet many governments didnt learn a lesson from horrors of last century is depressing

As a Greek-Ruso-Serb I see this as a total win.

No one, specially the Serbs or Serbian wants a War, but how the Others look of that is another Question about it.

While the conflict and its roots stems back centuries, the term "Balkanize" is relatively new; (Pre Great War/WWi). Even as a constant student of history, I still find this conflict convoluted and hard to wrap my head around all of the variables.

Take a shot whenever you watch this guy’s videos every time he says “unprecedented.” Disclaimer: I am not taking responsibility for anyone’s death due to alcohol poisoning.

what is difference between ethnic cleansing and forcable expeled?

At least it's simple and easy to understand.

“If war is to start, it’ll be over a damn silly thing in the balkans”

I feel like, aside from Ethiopia, you haven’t spent too much time covering any of the many conflicts on the African continent. There are so many to choose from like the wars in the Sahel, Morocco vs. Western Sahara, but the most notable one is the Congo War, or “Africa’s World War”. That would make a killer Nebula episode and you can make a youtube video about why the Congo is so poor. Just a suggestion. Great video as always.

I honestly think the multi-entity Bosnia and Herzegovina idea could work. With just one little thing that needs to change. One. Single. President. With the single president, the constitution should add "the current president is not allowed to show any type of support to one ethnicity than the other two". That way, if the president was serb, sprska wouldnt be such a problem. If he was Croat, Herzeg-Bosna wouldnt be a problem. And he was Bosniak, RBiH wouldnt be a problem. Another thing is to smoothen out the fucking entity borders, but thats optional. I think of this as a mini yugoslavia. If only it were like this

I try to keep up with current political events in dozens of countries, mostly in Europe and Latin America. Therefore, events like regional elections or changes in government in any given country usually don't escape my attention. Yesterday, while updating my "database" on Serbia, I came across a couple of interesting events in that country. Firstly, Ana Brnabić, the highest-ranking LGBT representative in an Orthodox country, announced her resignation as prime minister. Brnabić was appointed to this position by President Aleksandar Vučić seven years ago. This required courage, as it could easily have incurred the wrath of Serbian nationalists, who, like nationalists in any other Orthodox country, are very homophobic. But apparently, Vučić wanted to send a signal to the European Union that his country is not only oriented towards Russia but also towards Europe. After Brnabić's departure, her position will be taken by the former defense minister of the country. Secondly, Serbia announced that it is ready to buy 12 Rafale fighter jets from France, each costing approximately $120 million. This is a very unusual decision because Serbia usually buys weapons from Russia. Under normal circumstances, Serbia's decision to buy fighters from another country-especially from a NATO member-would have provoked the Kremlin's anger and accusations of betrayal against Belgrade. But not this time. Why? In my opinion, there can only be one explanation: Russia itself lacks fighters. It seems that the entire military aviation is engaged on the Ukrainian front. And this is a good indication that Russia's military resources are not limitless.

This is your first video that I can't follow clearly. Usually it's complex without being confusing

What a well-researched and impartial video... said nobody ever.

Damnit, not again! But on a serious note, it is more likely that England has a civil war faster than another Balkan war happening.

*Serbia attacks Croatia, Serbia attacks Bosnia, Serbia attacks Kosovo* Hmm, there seems to be a pattern here 🤔

I remember when Real Life Lore made 5 to 10 minute videos about really deep holes. They should just call themselves Real Life War now.

11:00 USA didn't had UN approval for an attack on Yugoslavia, China vetoed it, then they bombed the Chinese embassy and diplomats in return

As someone from ex Yuigoslavia this is what happened when USA started playing world policeman. But my guess is that first mistakes were made in WW1 with devision of AH empire where many mistakes were made , same were repeated after WW2. Many say that on yalta there was even a plan to devide Yugoslavia like Germany was on chatolic west and ortodox east. And USA never learned on their mistakes repeated them after that in Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afganistan. No problem in Bosnia and Herzegovina was solved, Bosnia lost 1 mil people due emigration or in Kosovo, Montenegro is devided internal, so is North Macedonia bullied by every neighbour arround them. But for the end situation in Balcan is result of war games big empires played over and over again since split of Roman Empire on W and E than Holly Roman empire against Bizantine and latter Ottoman empire cointinued with AH against Ottoman empire, that started WW1. It is a miracle those nations survived 1000 years of domination and represion.

I remember serbia and montenegro having a a really good soccer team in 2010.. now they're separated and weak

So, translation: If one injustice was solved, other injustices would also demand to be solved, so let's instead keep the Balkans completely unjust! Brilliant logic! It's not like putting a lid on growing problems has ever gone the opposite direction in the region.

As a person of the Balkans, a Croat, this entire video is complete balooney.

How little do you know its frighteneing.

Ain’t no way is Otto Von Bismarck gonna predict 2 MAJOR WARS AFTER HIS DEATH

Look, video is partially true. Bigger half of the video is western side of the story, and its not true. 15:00 you mentioned Serbia started full ethnic cleansing in 1999. How do you think a nation being bombed is capable of genocide (in 1999 in Kosovo were no serbian policemen or army, only civilians which were suppresed by UN troops) How do you think Serbia could attack Albanians when UN took Kosovo territory from Serbia??? 28:33 Srebrenica was a genocide. But it was a genocide done by an army general, not Serbian nation (general ordered an attack on everyone because he was furious they killed his daughter) In Srebrenica everyone was killed, even Serbs and Croats, it was not a genocide done by Serbia pleasu understand. Srebrenica was not the only genocide in Bosnia, what about Jasenovac? (150.000+ serbs killed) What about Oluja 95? (100.000 Serbs expelled from Croatia) Serbs were also killed in the war, we are not the only evil side. Stop spreading western propaganda, Serbian people were also the target And also dont spread misinformation about Republika Srpska (because i can see youre not really informed like you said RS is dominated by Serbs like of cause it is, its a serbian ethnicity (there are 3 ethnicities in BiH- Serbian, Croat and Muslim)) Republika Srpska has the right to be independent, like Kosovo, but we're not giving up kosovo its our Holy land I appreciate your patience and please stop making Serbia the bad guy. Thanks, do better...

Just let us live our lives peacefully.

The new CoD Warzone DLC is gonna be lit🔥🔥🔥

Perfect timing for this video. If the US / NATO argument is that the people were facing ethnic cleansing and they had to intervene why isn't NATO intervening in the Gaza on the same principle? If again the US / NATO argument is the same and the people have the right to self-determination why aren't they supporting the 2 state solution in Gaza?

Time traveler: What year is it? Europe's Next War Could Start in the Balkans! Do you know how little that narrows it down!?!?!?

I hope those guys get everything figured out peacefully. I have one friend who lives in Bosnia and one who lives in Serbia. Both young guys. I don’t want them to get hurt.

I feel like the whole issues is in the fact that folk in Balkans have no idea about the difference between nation-state and ethno-state

2 months already and no further escalation down there. Nothing truly ever happens.

I'll still indulge and watch this video knowing full well that nobody wants a war here.

Real life lore never makes me realize how big the world really is.

We work faster than you would expect